Tides Partners

Whether it’s climate change, food shortages, or economic inequality, almost all the world’s most pressing problems require STEM (science, tech, engineering, and math)-based solutions. Yet only a tiny fraction of our population has the STEM knowledge to even be at the table solving them. So it’s no surprise we haven’t solved these challenges yet.

To solve them, we need all of tomorrow’s problem-solvers to be equipped with STEM skills and inspiration. And tomorrow’s problem-solvers need excellent STEM teachers today to guide them. In his 2011 State of the Union, President Obama issued a call for adding 100,000 excellent STEM teachers to our nation’s schools over the coming decade.

100Kin10 emerged in 2011 to activate the country to respond to that urgent call and to accelerate and coordinate the resulting effort. With 28 founding partners, today 100Kin10 brings together over 300 of the nation’s top academic institutions, nonprofits, foundations, companies, and government agencies to train and retain 100,000 excellent STEM teachers over 10 years. With those organizations taking the lead, we aim to fuel the next generation of innovators and problem solvers.

Our approach is unique: More than just a coalition, 100Kin10 enlists the right mix of diverse and powerful organizations to make strong commitments; amplifies their capacity and impact through collaboration, learning, and funding; and catalyzes solutions to large-scale problems by leveraging the strength of the network and its resources. Together, this leads to the systemic change needed to overcome the challenges of providing all students with high-quality STEM learning.

100Kin10 has experienced significant success to date: Partner organizations are on track to meet the full 100,000 STEM teacher goal by 2021. They have already trained more than 30,000 new, excellent STEM teachers in the first four years of the effort and have supported tens of thousands more to improve their skills and stay in the classroom longer. Alongside that, we have grown by ten-fold, spurred dozens of collaborations, launched two intensive human-centered design fellowships focused on major challenges, and raised $90 million through an innovative funders’ collaborative.

Funding a narrative feature film which chronicles the seed of the disability rights movement.

ABFE is a membership-based philanthropic organization that advocates for responsive and transformative investments in Black communities. Partnering with foundations, nonprofits and individuals, ABFE provides its members with professional development and technical assistance resources that further the philanthropic sector’s connection and responsiveness to issues of equality, diversity and inclusion. Established in 1971 as the Association of Black Foundation Executives, the all-volunteer organization was credited with many of philanthropy’s early gains in diversity. It since has evolved into a fully staffed, influential network. In 2013, the organization shed its descriptor and adopted the simpler ABFE (ab-fee) to better reflect its broadening membership.

Abriendo Puertas / Opening Doors is the nation’s first evidence-based comprehensive training program developed by and for Latino parents with children ages 0-5.

Parent input informs the Abriendo Puertas / Opening Doors curriculum, which uses the “popular education” approach to engage parents in lessons that reflect the culture of the target audience. The ten interactive sessions draw from real-life experiences, incorporate data about local schools and communities, and focus on helping Latino parents understand their important role in the development of and long-term impact on their children’s educational outcomes. Abriendo Puertas / Opening Doors’ train-the–trainer model helps local family service providers improve their outreach and interaction with families, and create a sustainable program that reaches beyond the initial training sessions.

The Abriendo Puertas/Opening Doors (AP) program aims to increase the number of Latino children in the United States that enter school ready to learn and able to succeed in life by building the capacity and confidence of parents to be strong advocates in the lives of their children.

Abtahi Law Group is a boutique law firm focusing on civil litigation and consulting services. Our clients have included consumers, nonprofit organizations, and governmental entities.

We offer a full range of litigation services focused on business, class action, and public health litigation. We also offer business consulting and transactional services to health, life science, and technology companies and nonprofit organizations.

What distinguishes Abtahi Law Group is not only the quality of our practice, but also our commitment to our core value of providing service to the community. We have a longstanding commitment to giving back through our pro bono practice, volunteer activities, and community service.

Our mission is making emergency help accessible.
There are 28 million people in the United States that self-identify as limited English proficiency LEP (DHS), and there are 37.5 million people in the US that report trouble hearing (NIH). This means 65.5 million people not able to quickly contact 911. When talking out loud is not safe, accents, or those with speech disabilities, speaking to 911 dispatchers may not be possible.

Current text to 911 technology stack does not receive an accurate location when people text 911. No technology solutions are currently in place that allow limited English proficiency users to quickly communicate with English speaking 911 dispatchers. Information about their location and type of emergency can be lost in translation.

AccesSOS provides a progressive web app solution (any phone that has a web browser can text to 911 using our link, with no need to download an app), available in multiple languages and English, allowing people to quickly send the dispatcher their emergency location, and the type of help they need.

Accord Alliance promotes comprehensive and integrated approaches to care that enhance the health and well-being of people and families affected by differences of sex development (DSD).

We partner with patients and families, healthcare administrators, clinicians, support groups and researchers to facilitate open communication and collaboration among all persons working together to improve care of those affected by DSD. Through these partnerships, we can help all families experience better care, better outcomes, and better lives.

We strive to make our website a central hub of information for those working to improve the quality of outcomes in DSD through enhanced healthcare and research and through education of the public. Whether you are new to the issues of DSD or are a highly experienced clinical specialist, we believe you’ll find information at this website helpful to you. Here you’ll find educational materials (including Clinical Guidelines and a Handbook for Parents), clinical pearls shared by DSD specialists, information about upcoming meetings, summaries of recent presentations, and more.

Many schools are changing their approach to the way students eat. They are looking towards an affordable, organic and sustainable approach to nourishing their students. Acre Real School Lunch fulfills that need and aspires to be a source of pride for any school.

Each day we cook and serve organic food that promotes an optimistic outlook within the school while enhancing students’ capacities to stay focused and engaged. When we set out to serve lunch at schools we knew that it had to be healthy, delicious and affordable. We define our success by the many happy faces at lunchtime and the fact that students, faculty and parents are raving about our flavorful and healthy food.